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To: FJB who wrote (1461046)	6/6/2024 3:43:35 AM
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Great defense! "Hunter was not smoking crack at the gun shop during the purchase". Perhaps he shouldn't have confessed to Kestan. Sounds like he's using TenQ for his attorney. ---- Hunter Biden on trial in gun purchase case: All you need to know Five months before the United States presidential election, Joe Biden’s son faces trial over charges of illegally buying a gun while using drugs. Hunter Biden's (centre) trial comes days after Trump's conviction, months ahead of the November 2024 election [Susan Walsh/AP] By Al Jazeera Staff Published On 3 Jun 20243 Jun 2024 The son of United States President Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, is headed to court on trial over a federal firearms case. The trial is set to begin with jury selection on Monday at 8:30am in Delaware (12:30 GMT). This is the first time that a child of a sitting president will be a criminal defendant, coming shortly after another historic first: the trial of a former US president, after Donald Trump went to court over a vase centred on hush money he paid adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Trump was convicted in the case on Thursday. Here is more about the upcoming Hunter Biden trial: What are the charges against Hunter Biden? The younger Biden, 54, faces a three-count indictment over making false statements about his drug use to buy a gun back in 2018. His indictment was filed on September 14, 2023 and brought by US Special Counsel David Weiss after a plea deal between Hunter Biden and Weiss imploded in July 2023. The deal would have erased gun charges in exchange for Biden pleading guilty to two tax charges. Under the deal, Biden would have avoided prison. In October 2018, Hunter Biden purchased a Colt Cobra .38 special revolver from a gun shop called StarQuest Shooters & Survival Supply in Wilmington, Delaware — a town that the Bidens call home. Delaware gun laws allow adults to purchase and own guns, but federal law requires the person seeking to purchase to fill out a Firearm Transaction Record form, or ATF Form 4473. The form requires details such as height, weight, birth date and declarations such as whether the purchaser is in the country unlawfully, has been convicted of a felony or admitted to a mental institution in the past. Among the questions on the form is: “Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?” with “Yes” and “No” options as answers. While purchasing the revolver in 2018, Hunter Biden allegedly selected “No” to this question. This was when the younger Biden was addicted to crack cocaine. Here are the three counts that he was indicted for: Count 1 and 2 are about how, according to the prosecution, Hunter Biden knowingly made a false and fictitious written statement about his use of drugs, lying to a gun dealer. This violates multiple sections of Title 18 of the US Code. Count 3 is about the younger Biden knowingly possessing the gun while being an unlawful drug user. This also violates federal law, particularly Title 18 of the Code. Could Joe Biden’s son face prison over gun case? If Hunter Biden is convicted on all charges, he could face a maximum punishment of 25 years in prison, according to the US Department of Justice. --- at trial today: Hunter Biden’s ex-girlfriend details his crack cocaine addiction at trialJurors were told Biden would spend days in hotel rooms getting high in the months leading up to his 2018 gun purchase. Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, departs from the federal court with his wife Melissa Cohen Biden [File: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters] Published On 6 Jun 20246 Jun 2024 Hunter Biden’s former girlfriend has testified about his near-constant crack cocaine use at luxury hotels at the criminal trial where prosecutors are trying to prove that US President Joe Biden’s son lied about his addiction to illegally buy a gun. Zoe Kestan told jurors that Hunter Biden would prepare crack at the ritzy Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles or spend days in hotel rooms getting high in the months leading up to his 2018 gun purchase. “He would want to smoke as soon as he woke up,” Kestan told the court on Wednesday, as she described meetings with a “scary” drug dealer and hunting for instructions on the internet to cook powder cocaine into crack. Kestan testified at the first trial of a US president’s child, where prosecutors are trying to prove that Hunter Biden knowingly lied about his drug use on screening paperwork when he bought a revolver in October 2018. Kathleen Buhle, who divorced Hunter Biden in 2017, also testified for about 20 minutes to describe how she first discovered he was using drugs. Prosecutors also said they plan to call Hallie Biden, the widow of Hunter’s late brother Beau. Hunter Biden, 54, has pleaded not guilty to three felony charges accusing him of failing to disclose his use of illegal drugs when he bought the gun and of illegally possessing the weapon for 11 days. Biden has publicly acknowledged his past drug use, including in his memoir. He told the judge in the case at a 2023 hearing that he had been clean since 2019. Defence says no intent to deceive The defence lawyer, Abbe Lowell, has countered that Hunter Biden was not using drugs at the time of the purchase and did not intend to deceive. Lowell pressed an FBI agent to acknowledge that prosecutors had evidence of Hunter’s addiction only before or after rather than during the time he owned the gun. The trial follows another historic first – last week’s criminal conviction of Donald Trump, the first US president to be found guilty of a felony. Trump is the Republican challenger to Joe Biden, a Democrat, in the November 5 election. Kestan also described a message from Hunter Biden in which he said a month after the October 2018 gun purchase that he might get sober but “I’ll always be an addict”. The defence has worked to show that prosecutors have not presented much evidence that Hunter Biden was using drugs at the time he bought the gun.